A business boom in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif also fuels the area’s sex trade, Japan asks why young judo practitioners are dying and the E.U. is set to lift all sanctions on Burma
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New Zealand legalizes gay marriage, the U.S. proposes a human rights monitor in Western Sahara and organized crime in East Asia is worth around $90 billion.
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A new World Bank report is released on sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, Sunni candidates in Iraq are being assassinated ahead of the country’s elections, and a senior Syrian government minister has alleged that Britain and …
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Justin Trudeau wins a landslide victory to lead Canada’s opposition Liberal Party, Mayan men and women are testifying in the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, and Nicolas Maduro, the hand-picked heir …
U.S. Defense Cuts Lead to First Drop in Global Arms Spending in 15 Years
With battles raging in Congress over the Pentagon’s proposed budget cuts, a new report says the gap in military spending between the U.S. and the rest of the world is narrowing, with Washington’s erstwhile foes — China and …
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China pulls Quentin Tarantino’s film ‘Django Unchained’ on its opening day citing “technical problems,” Brazil’s new labor equality law for domestic servants could put them out of a job, and the hole in Cyprus’s finances is …
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in China and the U.S. are working together to develop a vaccine for the “bird flu,” and Uruguay becomes the third country in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage
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Cancer has replaced cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in China’s capital, Amnesty International released its annual compilation of capital punishment trends, and the caretaker president of Guinea-Bissau is …
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Colombia’s president slams “enemies” for “poisoning” peace negotiations with the FARC rebels, foreign companies are looking to Cambodia to limit their overreliance on Chinese factories and Argentinians have celebrated the news of …
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WHO says strain of bird flu found in humans for the first time in China is not a cause for panic, and the Catholic Church in Western Europe and the U.S. have a severe shortage of priests
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North Korea raises the stakes, glacial ice that took 1,600 years to form has melted in just 25 years in Peru’s Andes and a flagship Indian jobs program has been defrauded of around $10 billion by local officials
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Leaders in Africa refuse to recognize a rebel leader as the new president of Central African Republic and Japan’s central bank is set to announce a new billion-dollar plan
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The U.N. signs the first treaty to regulate the global arms trade, Malaysia will have a general election later this month, and the world’s poorest countries said they will commit to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions